Month: September 2024

  • Fountain of the Not Forgotten

    Military Working Dog Teams National Monument in San Antonio, TX Galatians 5:13 NLT Serve one another in love. Not Forgotten Fountain is part of the Military Working Dog Teams National Monument in San Antonio, TX. This fully functional fountain can provide visiting canines a cool drink on a hot Texas day while serving as a reminder…

  • Languages We Speak

    Three Sisters Mountains, Sisters, OR Isaiah 55:8-11 ISV For my thoughts are not your thoughts,     nor are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,     so are my ways higher than your ways,         and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 “For just…

  • My Friend

    My Friend My friend, I stand in judgment nowAnd feel that you are to blame somehow.On earth I walked with you by dayAnd never did you point the way.You knew the Lord in truth and gloryBut never did you tell the story.My knowledge then was very dim,You could have led me safe to Him.Though we…

  • What to Wear

    Military Working Dog Teams National Monument, San Antonio, TX Ephesians 6:17 NLT Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Would you head to work without your shoes?  My mom laughingly would recount the story about my first day of kindergarten. When I arrived…

  • Remain in Me

    John 15:4 CSB Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. When it’s time to prune the peach tree, I don’t keep the branch. I keep the tree! Away from the…

  • Foundation Made of Rock

    Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, OR Matthew 7:24-25 GNT So then, anyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, and the wind blew hard against that house. But it did not fall, because it was…

  • Enduring Word

    1 Peter 1:24-25 NIV All people are like grass,    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever. I love my wildflower garden. The pops of color are a welcome sight to my eyes in the otherwise muted desert. But…

  • Level 1 Evacuation

    Psalm 119:11-12 NIVI have hidden your word in my heart    that I might not sin against you.Praise be to you, Lord;    teach me your decrees. I live in wildfire country. History is riddled with horrific tales of fires. According to Earth.org, “The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin started on October 8, 1871 and burned around 1.2…